mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

Questions about mouth-to-mouth resuscitation

What does mouth-to-mouth resuscitation mean?

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation means "an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen".

What is another word for mouth-to-mouth resuscitation?

Close synonyms include cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, cardiac resuscitation, kiss of life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation a common word?

mouth-to-mouth resuscitation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.